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Polymer Additive Laboratory

Robac Technology has a fully-functional chemical research & development department containing polymer additives development equipment, analytical and rheological equipment to successfully meet requirements for compound development and property improvements.

Our Polymer Additive Laboratory has facilities for synthetic and natural rubber dry compounding, as well as latex processing and dispersion kit. Equipment includes:

  • Powder blending machine
  • Brookfield viscometer
  • Klaxon mechanical stability apparatus
  • High speed silverson stirrer 
  • Malvern particle size analyser
  • MonTech MDR3000 Professional with MonTech data acquisition software for testing rheological performance of test compounds
  • Instron 3366 dual column tabletop testing system
  • Mooney Viscometer for testing Mooney and Cure Index of test compounds
  • Hardness testers
  • Various rubber sample cutters
  • Stereo microscope to examine dispersion of additives in soft rubber etc.
  • 12 inch and 16 inch 2-roll mills
  • BR Banbury with 1kg mixing chamber
  • Electrically heated presses for compression moulding.
  • Various rubber moulds including gas transfer mould to collect vulcanisation fume for analysis
  • Vibro-mill for making small scale aqueous dispersions (500cc)
  • Ball-mill dispersion (2kg capacity)
  • Monsanto fatigue to failure tester
  • Wallace ageing ovens
  • Stress relaxation testing equipment
  • High temperature oven (250 degC)
  • Latex dipping machine and various moulds
  • Water baths
  • Curing ovens
  • DSC/TGA for materials analysis
  • Access to various instrumentations within Robinson Brothers such as HPLC, FTIR, GC, GC-MS, AA and other wet analysis.
  • Access to local university equipment, such as NMR, MS etc
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